A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music, Second Edition

Jeffery Kite-Powell

Description

Comprehensive manual of performance practice for music in the 17th century

Revised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. The volume includes new chapters on the violin, the violoncello and violone, and the trombone—as well as updated and expanded reference materials, internet resources, and other newly available material. This highly accessible handbook will prove a welcome reference for any musician or singer interested in historically informed performance.

List of Illustrations
Octave Designation Chart
Preface to the Second Edition \ Jeffery Kite-Powell
Preface to the First Edition \ Stewart Carter
Acknowledgments

Part 1. Vocal/Choral Issues
1. National Singing Styles \ Sally Sanford
2. The Bel Canto Singing Style \ Julianne Baird
3. Choral Music in France and England \ Anne Harrington Heider
4. Choral Music in Italy and the Germanic Lands \ Gary Towne
Part 2. Wind, String, and Percussion Instruments
5. Woodwinds \ Herbert Myers
6. Cornett and Sackbut \ Bruce Dickey
7. Trombone \ Stewart Carter
8. Trumpet and Horn \ Steven E. Plank
9. Percussion and Timpani \ John Michael Cooper
10. The Violin: Technique and Style \ David Douglass
11. Historical Approaches to Playing the Violin \ Julie Andrijeski
12. The Viola da Gamba Family \ Stuart Cheney with Barbara Coeyman
13. Violoncello and Violone \ Marc Vanscheeuwijck
14. Keyboard Instruments \ Mark Kroll
15. Plucked String Instruments \ Paul O'Dette
Part 3. Performance Practice and Practical Considerations
16. Ornamentation in Early Seventeenth-Century Italian Music \ Bruce Dickey
17. Basso Continuo \ Jack Ashworth and Paul O'Dette
18. Meter and Tempo \ George Houle
19. Tuning and Temperament \ Herbert Myers
20. Pitch and Transposition \ Herbert Myers
Part 4. The Seventeenth-Century Stage
21. Dance \ Dorothy Olsson
22. Theatrical Productions \ James Middleton

Appendix A. List of Names and Dates
Appendix B. A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music: Contents
Appendix C. A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music: Contents
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Musique
• Culture musicale
• Histoire de la musique
• Technique musicale
• Technique musicale
• Techniques musicales
• Music
• Performance
• Musique savante
• History
• General
• Classical
• Electronic musical instrument
• History of classical music traditions
• General officer
• Art music
• Multiple signal classification
• Musical instrument
• Genres
• Styles
• Musical Instruments

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 21 mars 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9780253005281
• Langue: English

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A PERFORMER'S GUIDE TO SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MUSIC
Publications of the Early Music Institute
PAUL ELLIOTT, EDITOR
A PERFORMER'S GUIDE TO SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MUSIC

EDITED BY
Stewart Carter
REVISED AND EXPANDED BY
Jeffery Kite-Powell
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
A performer's guide to seventeenth-century music / edited by Stewart Carter ; revised and expanded by Jeffery Kite-Powell.
p. cm. — (Publications of the Early Music Institute)
Prev. ed.: New York : Schirmer Books, c1997.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-253-35706-9 (cloth : alk. paper) —ISBN 978-0-253-00528-1 (e-book) 1. Performance practice (Music)—History—17th century. I. Carter, Stewart, [date] II. Kite-Powell, Jeffery T. III. Title: Performer's guide to 17th-century music.
ML457.P49 2012
781.4'309032—dc23
2011025491 1 2 3 4 5 17 16 15 14 13 12
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Octave Designation Chart
Preface to the Second Edition     JEFFERY KITE-POWELL
Preface to the First Edition     STEWART CARTER
Acknowledgments
PART 1.
VOCAL/CHORAL ISSUES

1. National Singing Styles    SALLY SANFORD
2. The Bel Canto Singing Style    JULIANNE BAIRD
3. Choral Music in France and England    ANNE HARRINGTON HEIDER
4. Choral Music in Italy and the Germanic Lands    GARY TOWNE
PART 2.
WIND, STRING, AND PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS

5. Woodwinds HERBERT MYERS
6. Cornett and Sackbut BRUCE DICKEY
7. Trombone STEWART CARTER
8. Trumpet and Horn STEVEN E. PLANK
9. Percussion Instruments and Their Usage JOHN MICHAEL COOPER
10. The Violin: Technique and Style DAVID DOUGLASS
11. Historical Approaches to Playing the Violin JULIE ANDRIJESKI
12. The Viola da Gamba Family STUART CHENEY WITH BARBARA COEYMAN
13. Violoncello and Violone MARC VANSCHEEUWIJCK
14. Keyboard Instruments MARK KROLL
15. Plucked String Instruments PAUL O'DETTE
PART 3.
PERFORMANCE PRACTICE AND PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS

16. Ornamentation in Early Seventeenth-Century Italian Music BRUCE DICKEY
17. Basso Continuo JACK ASHWORTH AND PAUL O'DETTE
18. Meter and Tempo GEORGE HOULE
19. Tuning and Temperament HERBERT MYERS
20. Pitch and Transposition HERBERT MYERS
PART 4.
THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY STAGE

21. Dance DOROTHY OLSSON
22. Teatrical Productions JAMES MIDDLETON
Appendix A. List of Names and Dates
Appendix B. A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music: Contents
Appendix C. A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music: Contents
 
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
ILLUSTRATIONS
EXAMPLES
Example 1.1. Excerpt from Sigismondo d'India, Lamento di Didone (1623)
Example 1.2. “Tremoletto” from Martin Fuhrmann, Musicalischer Trichter
Example 2.1. Sigismondo d'India, O dolcezz'amarissime d'amore (1609)
Example 2.2. Tosi's trills (as realized by Agricola): (a) trillo maggiore; (b) trillo minore; (c) mezzotrillo; (d) trillo raddoppiato; (e) trillo raddoppiato; (f) trillo mordente
Example 2.3. Chain of trills (Johann Friedrich Agricola)
Example 8.1a. Petronio Franceschini: Sonata in D, mvt. 2
Example 8.1b. Maurizio Cazzati: Sonata 5, La Caprara , Op. 35, no. 10, mvt. 1
Example 8.1c. Cazzati: La Caprara , mvt. 4
Example 8.2. Petronio Franceschini: Sonata in D: (a) mvt. 1; (b) mvt. 3
Example 8.3. Girolamo Fantini: Sonata No. 5, detta dell'Adimari
Example 9.1. Marin Mersenne, Harmonie universelle , drum rhythms
Example 9.2. Wirbel and doppel-wirbel (from Johann Ernst Altenburg, Versuch einer Anleitung)
Example 9.3. Final-cadence (from Speer, Musikalisches Kleeblatt )
Example 9.4. (a) Cross-stickings; (b) double cross-stickings; (c) eight-note or simple beatings
Example 9.5. (a) Simple tonguings as notated and realized; (b) double tonguings as notated and realized; (c) extended double tonguings as notated and realized; (d) carrying tonguings as notated and realized
Examples 11.1a–b. Georg Muffat bowing examples
Example 11.2. Gasparo Zannetti's La Nimfardina di Santino
Example 11.3. Seventeenth-century bowing examples
Example 14.1a. Johann Jakob Froberger, Toccata 1 in A minor, mm. 1–3
Example 14.1b. Louis Couperin, Prélude à l'imitation de Mr. Froberger (excerpt)
Example 15.1. The correct sequence for playing arpeggios
Example 15.2. Added dissonance to simplify left-hand fingering
Example 15.3a. Fourteen-course archlute
Example 15.3b. Fourteen-course theorbo
Example 15.3c. Ten-course lute in Renaissance tuning ( vieux ton )
Example 15.3d. Eleven-course lute in D-minor tuning
Example 15.3e. À cordes avalées
Example 15.3f. French flat tuning
Example 15.3g. French sharp tuning
Example 15.3h. Gallichon
Example 15.3i. Angélique
Example 15.3j. Baroque guitar tunings
Example 15.3k. Mandore
Example 15.3l. Mandolino
Example 16.1. Aurelio Virgiliano: Il dolcimelo (ca. 1590)
Example 16.2. Aurelio Virgiliano: Il dolcimelo (ca. 1590)
Example 16.3. Aurelio Virgiliano: Il dolcimelo (ca. 1590)
Example 16.4. Giulio Caccini: Le nuove musiche (1602)
Example 16.5. Antonio Brunelli: Varii esercitii… (1614)
Example 16.6. Giovanni Bovicelli: Regole, passaggi di musica (1594)
Example 16.7. Basic form of the groppo
Example 16.8. Giovanni Bovicelli: Regole, passaggi di musica (1594)
Example 16.9. Giovanni Bovicelli: Regole, passaggi di musica (1594)
Example 16.10. Lodovico Zacconi: Prattica di musica (1592)
Example 16.11. Giovanni Luca Conforto: Breve et facile maniera (1593)
Example 16.12. Giovanni Bovicelli: Regole, passaggi di musica (1594)
Example 16.13. Claudio Monteverdi: Audi cœlum from 1610 Vespers
Example 16.14. Lodovico Zacconi: Prattica di musica (1592)
Example 16.15. Lodovico Zacconi: Prattica di musica (1592)
Example 16.16. Francesco Rognoni: Selva de varii passaggi (1620)
Example 16.17. Lodovico Zacconi: Prattica di musica (1592)
Example 16.18. Lodovico Zacconi: Prattica di musica (1592)
Example 16.19. Emilio de’ Cavalieri: “ Zimbelo ” as found in Rappresentatione di anima, e di corpo
Example 16.20. Claudio Monteverdi: “ ribattuta di gola ” as found in Duo seraphim from 1610 Vespers
Example 16.21. Giulio Caccini: “ esclamatione ” as found in Le nuove musiche (1602)
Example 16.22. Francesco Rognoni: “ tremolo ” as found in Selva de varii passaggi (1620)
Example 16.23. Francesco Rognoni: “ tremolo ” as found in Selva de varii passaggi (1620)
Example 16.24. Giovanni Luca Conforto: “ trillo ” as found in Breve et facile maniera (1593)
Example 16.25. Girolamo Dalla Casa: “ tremolo groppizato ” as found in Il vero modo di diminuir (1584)
Example 16.26. Giulio Caccini: “ trilli ” as found in Le nuove musiche (1602)
Example 17.1. Conventional patterns for realizing a falling fifth at a cadence
Example 17.2. Dieterich Buxtehude, Fürchtet dich nicht , BuxWV 30, Sonata, mm. 1–11
Example 17.3. Angelo Notari, A la caccia
Example 17.4. Bellerofonte Castaldi, Capricci a due stromenti cioè tiorba e tiobina (1622)
Example 17.5. Sample arpeggio patterns for continuo realization
Example 17.6. Sample cadential patterns for continuo realization
Example 17.7. Continuo realization of an aria, ca. 1700, from Anonymous, Regole…d'accompagnare
Example 17.8. Henry Lawes, Sweet Stay Awhile (figures editorial)
Example 17.9. Sample realizations for cadential suspensions
Example 17.10. John Blow, sample realizations for cadential suspensions
Example 17.11. Francesco Durante, solo partimento exercise (from Partimenti, ossia intero studio di numerate
Example 18.1. Mensural notation
FIGURES
Figure 1.1. Linkage of selected seventeenth-century singing treatises
Figure 6.1. Fingering chart for cornett in a
Figure 7.1. Michael Praetorius, Syntagma Musicum II, Theatrum Instrumentorum (1620), plate 8
Figure 7.2. Michael Praetorius, Syntagma Musicum II, De Organographia (1619)
Figure 7.3. Michael Praetorius, Syntagma Musicum II, Theatrum Instrumentorum , plate 6 (detail)
Figure 7.4. Marin Mersenne, Harmonie universelle , vol. 3
Figure 7.5. Lodovico Carracci, Il paradiso (ca. 1616). Bologna, Church of San Paolo (detail) 122
Figure 7.6. Hans Burgkmair and others, Der Triumphzug Maximilians I (1526), plate 78 (detail)
Figure 8.1. Two illustrations of a twice-folded, elongated trumpet, as depicted in Marin Mersenne, Harmonie universelle (1636)
Figure 9.1. Michael Praetorius, Syntagma Musicum II, Theatrum Instrumentorum , plate 23; field timpani (1); field drums (2); Swiss fipple flute (3); anvil (4)
Figure 9.2. Michael Praetorius, Syntagma Musicum II, Theatrum Instrumentorum , plate 29: satyr pipes (1 and 2); American horn or trumpet (3); a ring, played by the Americans in the way we [Germans] play the triangle (4); American shawm (5); cymbals, upon which the Americans play in the way we play bells (6); a ring with jingles, which they throw into the air and catch again (7); American drums (8 and 9)
Figure 10.1. From Thoinot Arbeau'